Just remember the home game against Derby where he kept twisting and turning, hesitating to shoot, eventually got tackled and the ball fell to Viduka who just said "fuck this you useless cunt" and buried it with ease.
Don't be silly.
why not he may (accidently obviously) do something resembling useful there rather than get in the way of tiote in the holding role
If Pardew is playing Smith as a striker ahead of Ranger then there's something seriously wrong.
Is there? Would be classic Pardew to be honest.